Just starting into the excellent 13 week training program this race has posted on their website. It's not that easy to find an 8K training program. Lots of 5K, 10K and half marathon training programs around but not 8K so this is a good one. My big goal is to get through this without getting injured and finish the race in a reasonable time. Then on to a 10K.

Yes, good luck in the 8K training and race. Are you starting your running from scratch? An 8k race is 13 weeks is a very doable goal.

I'll be there in Victoria too doing my first Half in 7 years. Not really using a specific training plan. I'm just slowly increasing my long runs from 10k to 18k. I'm at 14k long runs now. Race day adrenaline will get me to the finish line as long as I don't try to run the race too fast (Been there. Done that).

I'll run in heat up to about 26C. Hotter than that I switch to early on weekends and late on week days. If I had some summer races there would be some benefits to training in heat. This morning I went out early at 16C because it may hit 30C mid afternoon which it has for the last week.

If you just did a 5K race I'd target a 10k plan reap the benefits on 8k race day. You'll want to target the Victoria TC 10k on April 27th. It's the biggest 10k on the Island.